Cheesy breezy delight
-Photo by Wajiha Anwar
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I grew up watching my mother be the perfect hostess at our parties. The crown at any event would undoubtedly be her variety of mouth-watering meals. Rich accolades were bestowed upon her throughout the course of the gatherings. Hence, perhaps I am biologically predisposed to cooking, and more so to improvising. I thrive at experimenting with different flavors and ingredients and fortunately have been lucky … so far.
Hence, in light of some fusion, I bring to you my version of chicken cheese balls. I first tasted these scrumptious delights at a party and couldn’t wait to get back home and try my hand at it.
It’s a fairly simple dish to make at home and the ingredients are all easily available too.
Dish: Chicken cheese balls
Serves 8 people
Ingredients:
Boneless Chicken – ½ kg
Mozzarella Cheese – half pack grated
Cheddar Cheese – half pack grated
Carrots – 3 grated
Cabbage – ½ grated
Capsicum – 2 grated
Soya Sauce – 3 tbsp
Worcestershire Sauce – 1 tbsp
Oyster Sauce – 1 tsp
Black Pepper Powder – 1 tsp
Red Chili Flakes – 1 tsp
White Pepper – ½ tsp
Chinese Salt – ½ tsp
Salt – to taste
Oil – for frying
For Coating:
Egg – 3
Flour (Maida) – ½ cup
Bread Crumbs – 2 cups
Method:
Boil chicken with salt and pepper and then shred it (you can use your chopper as well). Now take a bowl add your shredded chicken, all the grated vegetables and add all the spices and sauces together. Mix it all well. Take a small amount of mixture and spread it on your palm and fill it with both mozzarella and cheddar cheese (mix both of the grated cheese together and the amount of cheese should not be more than a teaspoon).
Preparing chicken cheese balls:
Carefully roll the mixture over your palm using both your hands and make small balls out of it. The sizes of the balls should be no bigger than a tennis ball.
For the coating, take three eggs, beat them well, dip your chicken cheese balls in egg first, then roll it in flour (Maida) covering it completely, then dip it again in egg. And lastly, cover it with bread crumbs evenly.
Heat oil for frying till moderately hot. Dip each ball in the batter and deep fry it on a slow flame so that the cheese melts inside. Take them out when they are golden brown.
Drain on a tissue paper. Set aside till warm enough to relish. And then serve immediately. (Ideally, I like to serve them with some chili garlic sauce.)
Chicken Cheese Balls are great with evening tea or even served well as a starter.
If you try it let us know whether you liked it!
The writer is an Assistant Multimedia Producer at Dawn.com
I hope the cheesy breezy balls will turn out good even with a dash of tongue-searing red chilli flakes and white chilli powder, and much lesser quantity of capsicum while leaving out carrots altogether.
very very yummy and easy to make!something quick which these days ppl are looking for…
Pls give weights of the two cheeses to be used as pack size could differ from country to country. Thanks.
keep up da good work goin on.sure i wil tryin makin it
chears
Whether it is tennis ball or golf ball size, the recipe looks great and easy to make. Thanks Wajiha
Are Mozarrella and Cheddar cheese hallal?
Mozzarella is Halal. Cheddar in western countries is USUALLY NOT Halal. I would assume Muslim countries are aware of this, and use Halal alternatives in their process for Cheddar.
If you are in Canada you may get both the cheeses under the name 'Iqbal Foods' which is Halal.
@Author
You mention 'batter' at some point, but you didn't say how to make it. May be an over sight.
Also if you can answer a few question asked here in a nutshell.
why not use mince chiken
How about making it football size; the whole family can share? Family Style!
I am a vegetarian from birth but cook non vegetarian food for my family. Always on look-out for simple non-veg recipes, i am delighted to find this very easy-to-do dish with chicken. As someone has mentioned, i would like to add potatoes to the chicken-cheese dough to give it more consistency.
May be table tennis size balls are intended.
She meant table tennis ball.
Forget the chili sauce.Do the bringal [bangan]chutny.I am not sure if in Pakistan you make it.Boiled and mashed bringals minus skin,red chilies.onions and tamarind cooked to perfection.We in our country call it dill kush.Finger licking good.
Are you sure its tennis sized balls?
I think she meant Table tennis size balls.
Recipes usually indicate exact measurements of various ingredients. Packs of mozzarella and cheddar cheeses can be anything between 250g and 1kg. How much do you actually need?
Also, the mixture would probably make 2 or 3 tennis ball-sized servings. Surely you mean golf ball-sized servings!!
I would've added mashed boiled potatoes (small qty), it should add some body to the balls.
@@Wajiha as writer u are doing great job. keep it high world deserve writers like you. God bless you.